Interview with Gil Grand

Country artist GIL GRAND was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. He started to sing and play guitar at age 14 and went on to win the Canadian Open Country Singing Contest three years in a row. In the late 1990s, he signed a publishing deal and made the move to Nashville. His talent for songwriting  and singing brought him to the attention of top record executives, and he soon signed a major U.S. record deal with Sony Music Nashville’s Monument Records. The release of his debut album Famous First Words won him fans on both sides of the border and earned him three CCMA nominations, including Male Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year and Wrangler Rising Star. He went on to release two other successful albums: 2002's Burnin' and 2006's Somebody's Someone. Along with his debut hit single Famous First Words, Gil has had chart-toppers with Let's Start Livin', Cry A Little, Break It To Them Gently and Spilled Perfume. In October 2007, Gil and business partner Randy Gee opened the doors of Grand & Gee Music Group, a Nashville-based music publishing company and recording studio. They earned CCMA nominations for Music Publisher of the Year in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and celebrated their first number one single with Chris Young’s big hit Tomorrow. Gil now has a brand new single released to Country radio called Groove.